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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1886
Page
7
A veteran recalls battlefield scenes from 1862 through Petersburg and Yorktown. He notes a private’s limited view of combats, describes shells and injuries in detail, and laments selective memory in war memoirs. Additional Vermont reform history about atheists testifying closes the piece.
A Globe-Democrat letter discusses slips of the tongue by a famed lawyer and a friend who rarely curses. It notes how fear of an embarrassing phrase can trigger a profane botch, and comments on overtrained conscience and possible diabolical possession.
At a Toronto Natural History Society meeting William Brodie presented a paper on a newly found parasite affecting spear grass timothy and jug grass. He described microscopic mites unseen by the naked eye that feed on grass juice causing weakness and shrinkage while noting the need for further study with microscopes.
A wealthy bachelor dies in St Petersburg bequeathing property in St Petersburg and Moscow plus stock to his nephew. Provisos demand the heir vow not to smoke or play cards and to marry within six months of the will proving, or risk forfeiture. Three executors guard the clause. two vows have been accepted reluctantly, the third remains insuperable.
A Chester Pa local note shares a dated age guessing trick for calculating a woman's age and birth month. It instructs to multiply birth month by two then add five, multiply by fifty, add age, subtract 365, add 115, and read the remaining digits as age and birth month. The example uses 22 and August.
A reminiscence from a Telegraph story by ex Senator Davis describes original figures in West Virginia mountains and a sermon ten miles north of a park. The preacher, in mid rhetoric, raised his hands and proclaimed the world rejoiced at the news of Christ’s birth flashing over the wires.
Special Correspondent describes Brielle New Jersey a seaside resort near Long Branch with the Carteret hotel and furnished cottages. He critiques women’s bathing skirts arguing for freer dress while noting cottage rents from $300 to $350 for May to October. He praises simple furnishings and sea views while observing local children and crabs and porpoises offshore.
Louise Phillips reflects on death as a release not an end. The speaker contrasts a peaceful summer scene with dying to argue that death is only the beginning and immortality lies in perpetual living beyond pain. The poem appears in Pioneer Press.
Inventory shows Scotch or American granite monuments from 8 to 12 feet high with drapery and urns, plus Italian marble pieces. Prices range from 25 to 225 dollars for full monuments and headstones, including 6 inch thick stones and smaller children's stones from 10 dollars up.
Piles cause back and abdomen weight with possible kidney concerns. Indigestion symptoms and moisture with itching are common. Dr Bosanko's Pile Remedy absorbs tumors and relieves itching for a permanent cure at 50 cents. Address The Dr Bosanko Medicine Co Piqua Ohio. Sold by Flower Petrikin.
A Contemporary Review describes Moslem religious rites in Suakin where a dervish leads a chant while forty followers chant in unison, producing a terrifying ventriloquial bark that spreads through the crowd as men stagger exhausted and drenched in fervor.
G Cook veterinary surgeon advertises compounds for Black Leg Pleuro Pneumonia Hog Cholera and Fowl Cholera called for by government. He treats bone and ligament enlargements and general diseases. Sells trocars for bloated cattle and shod horses. He operates from A A Woodbury's shop and W A Miner's Livery Stable with invalid accommodations.
Col. Goodnow recalls how war hardened men to violence and fear, noting an old urge to shoot a rebel for sport during Vicksburg and the risky, grueling Atlanta campaign that left troops willing to die. He cites a blackberry patch fight near Decatur as an example of reckless heroism born of war.
Material and proportions cannot be excelled. It will be to your interest to see me before purchasing elsewhere.
Hale and Hotchkiss advertise 60000 acres in Wyoming about 100 miles north of Greeley with 15000 acres available at 2.00 dollars per acre payable one sixth down and balance in five equal payments, last due six years after purchase. Water supplied by Canal and Tunnel Co at yearly rent. Town to be laid out next month, strong appeal for spring buyers and speculators. Arthur R Hotchkiss, Notary Public, offers full information at the firm office.
The New York Sun notes a large European industry making picture frames from paper pulp. The mixture of paper pulp glue linseed oil and lime is heated into a cream run into molds and hardened then gilt or bronzed for frames.
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